City of Palmerston | tre, will see the development increase to over 60,000 square metres of retail space. According to Ricki, the centre is projected to generate numerous economic and social benefits. Those benefits include not only the creation of 3,000-plus jobs over the three stages of the project, but also the retention of retail spending in the Territory that had been previously escaping interstate. “That development will provide a lot of opportunities for people in Palmerston,” Ricki says. The same is true of the new $150 million Palmerston Regional Hospital, which is set to open its doors to patients in 2018. That will be the Northern Territory’s first new public hospital in almost 40 years, as well as the most technologically advanced healthcare building in the NT, where it will treat thousands of residents each year and employ 340 staff. In-house, the City of Palmerston has been concentrating on revitalising their CBD, and has developed a detailed City Centre Master Plan to achieve that vision. This plan provides a vision and framework to achieve better planning and urban design outcomes, and was designed to facilitate the ongoing development of the CBD whilst solidifying a firm identity for the
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